…Every few evenings, it is reported, he gathers a few intimate friends in the rear of his barbershop, when he regales them witha. varied assortment of goblins and ghosts. Sometimes a friend wishes to converse with Dan Webster on the tariff question, and the shade of the departed statesman immediately comes forth. Relatives are accommodated with little private talks with departed uncles, aunts, etc. The other evening a gentleman who was present called up the spirit of the missing man, Webber, and the question was asked, “Are you dead?” The table was lifted from the floor and slammed against the ceiling several times…
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“Like Tinkerbell”
…It was locked. Now the door was wide open, and BOTH cats were inside. The older cat would have been outside like a flash if she had seen it. I was shaken, but the next night was the weirdest. I woke up at about 3:45 to see a light in the room. Half asleep, I lifted my head up to see a light shining on a shelf in the room I was in…..
Footsteps at the Witch Grave
…As I left to throw away the trash I heard distinct footsteps coming from behind me. Many people jog through the cemetery around to the park so I turned around to see which way they were going. I pulled my dog aside and turned to look, but realized no one was there. I looked around and no one else was in the cemetery….
Toy Robot Apparition
…As I closed my eyes to sleep, I saw what looked like a toy robot take a few steps forward then fall into the floor. Toy robot is the best I can do to describe it: I heard crude, mechanical toy-robot noises, saw two red lights like toy-robot eyes, and the way the lights moved made me think of clunky, robotic steps….
Ultramarine Wisp
… It was too solid and blue to be an ember. It couldn’t have been a laser pointer because its movement was much too steady and we were under trees that would have obscured it. It was not an insect….
A ‘Bit Otherworldly’ Cat
…All the time the cat was sitting in the yard, with the same blank stare Queenie will get when she is bored or half asleep. The cat noticed us looking at it, and sidled off sideways and disappeared into the bushes. As my roommate walked away, I saw something that startled me. The cat had the same deformity at the end of its tail as Queenie did….
Shadow Person in Hedge
…There is a grade school that backs on to the park, with high hedges around it except at one point, there is a ten-foot gap in the hedge. As we were passing it, I saw a black figure looking very flat, like it was cut out of cardboard, RUN past the gap….
Woodstock UFO
At 8:59PM I looked up & saw something I couldn’t identify traveling very quickly from the north to the south make a U-turn back towards the north in the sky over my house.
Wrong Door
One night , at about 3 in the morning , I woke up needing to got to the bathroom , which was down stairs. I opened the stairwell door and could feel the air pressure had changed, Curious, I opened the door to the living room ,and the sound of the living room was, “wrong”….